How important is liberty to you?

First off what is Liberty?
Among other things:
a : the power to do as one pleases
b : freedom from physical restraint
c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control
d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges
e : the power of choice

Patrick Henry is quoted as saying "Give me liberty, or give me death!" He very well knew how important liberty to people. In recent years our leaders has fallen victim to the idea of "safety" over freedom. Keep in mind this has not been just a recent fault, in WW2 we unjustly put countless asian americans in camps. Throughout the Cold War (with the wars within it, Vietnam for example) a number of americans were investigated and or shunned for fear that they have ideals of other countries.  

With the war on terror citizens have had their freedoms ripped away from them since 2001, the war on drugs has imprisoned and ruined the lives of countless people since 1941, not to mention it has wasted billions of dollars and has been very unsuccessful. 

Currently the government (and organizations such as the MPAA and RIAA pushing bills like SOPA) has been pushing to increase (not start) spying on americans with various methods (drones for example). In a lot of ways our government has gotten so comfortable with spying on citizens that they are not even making an effort to hide the fact that it happens. What's worse about the new ways of spying is that it's not limited to people that are suspected of crimes but instead spying on EVERYONE!

As technology advances the ability of the government to spy and reduce our freedom increases. As citizens we must each take part in ensuring that our government goes back to the mindset of liberty or death because each year we wait and the more liberties we lose the harder it will be to gain them back. Please take time to become at least a little ative in whatever political party you stand behind and always look at every bill with a sceptical mindset and say to yourself "what are the adverse effects of this bill?" and if the answer is ever losing a freedom, it's not worth it and do whatever it takes to make sure that it is not approved!